The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747

“The editors have done the growing field of French Atlantic studies a great service with this outstanding volume.” — Journal of Southern History

“Gordon Sayre and Carla Zecher have done a great service for the study of the lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth century with the publication of The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont.” — Arkansas Historical Quarterly

“Recommended to anyone studying the French colonial experience, regional Native American culture, the French Marines, or the natural history of the southeast before wide-spread European occupation.” — Louisiana History

“Puts an important primary source on Native American culture within reach of a wide audience. . . . [R]epresents a significant advance for several academic fields.” — William and Mary Quarterly

“Dumont de Montigny’s account of his adventures, designed to demonstrate his skills, display his sensibility, and defend a contested reputation for merit, provides a wonderfully fresh and detailed portrait of the struggles for power and prestige among the colonists and of encounters between settlers and native peoples. This Memoir offers important new insights into the negotiation of personal identity in journeys between the Old World and the New.” — Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles